Word of the Day 6/5/13

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Bourgeois (noun, adjective)
bour·geois [boor-zhwah, boor-zhwah; French boor-zhwa]

noun
1. a member of the middle class.
2. a person whose political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
3. a shopkeeper or merchant.

adjective
4. belonging to, characteristic of, or consisting of the middle class.
5. conventional; middle-class.
6. dominated or characterized by materialistic pursuits or concerns.

Origin: 1555–65; < Middle French; Old French borgeis burgess

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